Decline the Upgrade Offer
We’ve spoken about how you can upgrade your room without paying a cent or maybe bribing the front desk employee. However, there’s another way you can score a free upgrade, and you won’t even have to bring it up. If the front desk employee asks you whether you want to upgrade your room for X amount of dollars, decline.
More often than not, hotel employees are trained to offer upgrades for a cost as a last-ditch effort to sell a more expensive room. If you decline, there’s a pretty good chance that they’ll just give it to you without charging you for the upgrade.